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LONDON: BBC Worldwide has renewed the clothing licence for Marks and Spencer, plus a toiletries license from H&A, for the property Charlie and Lola for an additional two years. Slated to launch this spring, the collection of Charlie and Lola-inspired apparel …

SINGAPORE: The animated sports series Supa Strikas is slated to debut on February 2 on ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) networks across Asia. The show will air every Monday at 7 p.m., and is repeated on Saturdays at 11:30am. STAR Sports …

LONDON: Cake Entertainment has been appointed worldwide distributor of Fresh TV’s new animated surf comedy Stoked. Developed by Fresh TV for TELETOON in Canada, Stoked is a character-driven animated sitcom about six teenagers who come together one summer to work …

BURBANK: Disney-ABC Television Group is laying off about 200 employees, with a further 200 unfilled positions to be eliminated, following a round of cuts at sister unit ESPN. The cuts will impact all units of Disney’s TV group, as part of …

STOCKHOLM: On March 23, the Modern Times Group (MTG) is set to launch a new entertainment channel in Denmark targeting 15- to 49-year-olds. The broad general entertainment channel, named TV3 PULS, will be available in more than 50 percent of Danish …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, revenues for the motion picture and video production-and-distribution industry gained 7 percent in 2007, reaching $66 billion. The data also shows that between 2006 and 2007, publishing and broadcasting revenues from the …

TOKYO: Third-quarter net profit at Sony Corporation plunged 94.8 percent to 10.4 billion yen ($115.9 million), with revenues down 24.6 percent to 2.1 trillion yen ($23.7 billion). The company also reported a quarterly operating loss, of 18 billion yen, versus …

LONDON: The U.K.’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has released the Digital Britain interim report, promising to give all homes across the country access to broadband by 2012. Presented to the Parliament by the Secretary of State for Culture, …

LOS ANGELES: Christina Norman, the former president of MTV, has been named CEO of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, effective February 17. Norman will be based in the Los Angeles headquarters of OWN, a joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications that …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has renewed its long-standing licensing partnerships with Polyband Film and Dutch Film Works as DVD distributors for Germany and Benelux, respectively.  Under the terms of the agreements, both Polyband Film and Dutch Film Works maintain the …